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Hyderabad: Discarded Ranji opener Akshath Reddy hit yet another century in Income Tax’s win over Charminar while Saketh Dhatrak’s five-wicket haul went in vain as India Cements lost a thrilling match to BDL in the HCA one-day knockout cricket tournament for three-day league teams on Tuesday. Brief scores: Group A: Union Bank of India 235 […]

Hyderabad: Skipper Tanmay Agarwal (62; 46b, 7×4, 1×6) led from the front while left-arm seamer CV Milind (3.2-0-8-5) picked up his second five-wicket haul to script Hyderabad’s fifth successive win when they defeated Uttar Pradesh by 29 runs in the Elite Group E Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 cricket tournament at Sultanpur (Haryana) on Tuesday. Thanks […]

Hyderabad: Telangana chess player Arjun Erigaisi added another feather in his cap. Playing in a strong field, which included top chess players from the world, the 18-year-old from Warangal finished third with 13.5 points from 18 games in the Lindores Abbey Blitz Tournament in Riga, Latvia. Speaking from Latvia, the Grandmaster said he was elated […]

Hyderabad: Local team Team Mysa and Kolkata’s Cleantek United started their National Amateur Golf League 2021 campaigns in style with wins here at the picturesque Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club on Tuesday. Tournament favorites Team Mysa won convincingly over Bengaluru’s Mighty Eagles while Cleantek United narrowly edged out the Chennai Hustlers by one point. […]

Hyderabad: Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal emerged as sole leader with 7 points out of 7 rounds while four players Gusain Himal (Chattisgarh), Saravana Krishnan (Karur Vysya Bank), Utsab Chatterjee (West Bengal) and Arpan das (West Bengal) are in second spot with 6.5 points each in the 3rd Hyderabad All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament […]

Mysuru: The Surender-trained Gold Field looks set to strike in the Fame And Glory Plate 1200 metres, a handicap for horses rated 60 and above Class-II, the feature event of the races to be held here on Wednesday. False rails are up. The first race starts at 2.00 p.m. SELECTIONS: Infiniteposibility 1, Tracer Bullet 2, […]

Abu Dhabi: Title favourites but injury hit England will bank on their X-Factor players to upstage a remarkably consistent New Zealand in the first semifinal of the T20 World Cup here on Wednesday. England were the pre-tournament favourites and played like one for the majority of the Super 12 stage. However, their loss in the […]

Hyderabad: Wicketkeeper A Prateek Reddy will lead the Hyderabad men’s under-25 `A’ team that will take part in the BCCI under-25 State A tournament to be held at Rajkot from November 20. Team: A Prateek Reddy (captain & wk), M Abhirath Reddy, Shaik Sohail, K Nitesh Reddy, Rahul Reddy, Sagar Chaurasia (wk), M Rakesh Yadav, […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s Sneha Singh is all set play in her maiden international tournament when she participates in the Women’s Amateur Golf championship that begins from Wednesday at Abu Dhabi Golf Cup. The young golfer, who is a student of St Ann’s College, will represent the Indian team with Avani Anika, Sifat and Nishna. Sneha had […]

Hyderabad: It is ironic ever since the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) started in 2008, India have never won the T20 World Cup. The Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led team clinched the T20 World Cup in 2007 in South Africa but after that the Indian side returned empty-handed. On the other hand, Pakistan, who don’t have a […]

Hyderabad: The inaugural edition of the National Amateur Golf League, being organised by T Golf Foundation, will kick off on Tuesday at the Boulder Hills Golf and Country Club, in Hyderabad. The edition will have eight teams from New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Rest of India and the competition will be played on […]

Dubai: Fine performances with bat and ball saw India sign off from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup with a nine-wicket win over Namibia in their final Super 12 match at the Dubai International Stadium here on Monday. It meant that Virat Kohli finished his T20I captaincy career on a high. It also indicated that […]

New Delhi: Olympian badminton player PV Sindhu was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award. Earlier this year, the badminton player had become the first Indian woman to win two Olympic medals. She defeated China’s He Bing Jiao in the bronze medal match at the Tokyo Olympics. President Ram Nath Kovind is presenting the […]

Hyderabad: The Tanmay Agarwal-led Hyderabad team continued its dream run as they pulled off a stunning last-ball three-wicket victory over formidable Delhi in the Elite Group E Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament at Sultanpur (Haryana) on Monday. In a humdinger of a contest, Hyderabad survived a few anxious moments before the left-handed duo of Tanay […]

Dubai: India doesn’t play “fearless” brand of cricket in ICC events, feels former England captain Nasser Hussain, and said absence of an alternate plan and selection issues were the reasons for the team’s early exit from the T20 World Cup. “You have got to go out and express yourself. They (India) have got so much […]

New Delhi: The Indian batters’ failure to score enough against strong teams was the primary reason for the team’s ordinary campaign in the T20 World Cup, said legendary former captain Sunil Gavaskar, urging the side to change its approach in power-play overs. “The way Pakistan and New Zealand bowlers restricted our batters, didn’t let them […]

Hyderabad: Gaurav Singh guided the N Ravinder Singh-trained New Look to victory in the Telangana Cup 1400 metres, the feature event of the opening day’s winter races at Malakpet Race course on Monday. RESULTS: Furious Fun (1), Golden Forza (2), My Master (3), Turf Monarch (4).W-Rs.-38, SHP-Rs. 109, P-Rs. 14, 25, 15, THP- Rs. 38, […]

Hyderabad: Leg spinner Shaunak Kulkarni took 7/26 to star in Balaaji’s seven-wicket win over Continental in the HCA one-day knockout for A1 Division three-day teams on Monday. Brief scores: Group B: Budding Stars 191 in 43.4 overs (K Nitesh Reddy 45, Wasil Sartaj 31, Saketh Dhatrak 3/28, Mohd Omer 3/27) lost to India Cements 192/6 […]

Hyderabad: Unheralded Arnav Maheswari of Tamil Nadu held top seed Grandmaster RR Laxman to a draw in the fifth round of the 3rd Hyderabad All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament, Joy International School, Bachupally, on Monday. However, eight players — International Master Gusain Himal, IM Ratnakaran, IM Saravana Krishnan, Kaustuv Kundu, Dhananjay, Arpan Das, Harsh […]

Hyderabad: Mumbai’s Ojas Surve, who had the fastest lap time, drove past his competitors to be crowned as the Red Bull Kart Fight Champion and earned the opportunity to watch the F1 2021 season-ending race at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. “I am thrilled about my win; it feels great to have won the National […]

Hyderabad: Niesha Enja cornered glory when she bagged two titles (girls under-10 and under-12) in the Telangana State Tennis Association state ranking championship that was held at Advantage Tennis Academy. Boys U-10: Quarterfinals:  Lemuel Alladi bt Daivik Kalvakunta 8-4, Nirvaan Marganabt Lenin Reddy 8-2,  Satya Parthiv bt Aarav Charan 8-4,  Sujai Pothula bt Nihar Tej […]

Hyderabad: Bloom Buddy and Knight Templar pleased when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course on Monday morning. SAND:600m:City Of Blossom (RB) (From 1200/600) 45, eased up. Top Diamond (Rohit Kumar) (From 1000/400) 47, moved easy. 800m:Precoius Gift (Kiran Naidu) 1-2, 600/48, handy. Smashing Blue (Apprentice)1-3, 600/47, moved freely. 1000m:Balius (Koushik) 1-15, 800/58, […]

Sharjah: Pakistan continued their unbeaten streak in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup with a 72-run win over Scotland in their last Group 2 match at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium here on Sunday. With the big win, Pakistan signed off from the Super 12 as the toppers of Group 2. They are the only team […]

Riga: Indian chess ace Dronavalli Harika could not break through the defences of lower-rated German Elisabeth Paehtz in the 10th round to slip to joint third with 6.5 points in the FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss chess tournament here. Harika was up against Paahtz on the second board in a Alapin Variation of the Sicilian. The […]